Tag Archives: Steven Moffat

“ASYLUM OF THE DAKES” – Series 7, Episode 1, Story 225 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Nick Hurran – Series 7 kicks off with the return of the Daleks and the introduction of promised future Companion Oswin Oswald. (Or, at least, the first appearance of the actress who’ll be playing the new Companion.)…

The Adventures of Tintin (2011) – Directed by Steven Spielberg – Starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Tony Curran, and Toby Jones. I don’t have much history with Hergé’s Tintin, so I come to this movie rather clean – no preconceived notions, no emotional history, no expectations of any kind.…

“THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG” – Series 6, Episode 13, Story 223 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Jeremy Webb – The Eleventh Doctor is ready to die, but he’s not going down without a plan. So he runs around a lot. But not literally runs around because this iteration doesn’t do so much…

“LET’S KILL HITLER” – Series 6, Episode 8, Story 218b – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Richard Senior – Holy fish fingers and custard it’s nice to have the Doctor back. After a summer off, it’s time for a new adventure for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River Song as Amy and Rory’s…

“A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR” – Series 6, Episode 7, Story 218a – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Peter Hoar – The Eleventh Doctor and Rory raise a … well, it’s not an army as much as it is a collection of costumes, but together they all go storm Demon’s Run in order…

“A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR” – Series 6, Episode 7, Story 218a. There’s only one episode left to the first-half of the split DOCTOR WHO season, and after the shocker at the end of THE ALMOST PEOPLE, it’s full steam ahead. Since there’s a trailer and a prequel floating around out there, I figured…

“DAY OF THE MOON” – Series 6, Episode 2, Story 214 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Toby Haynes – Part Two of the Series 6 opener sees the Eleventh Doctor imprisoned at Area 51 and Canton Everett Delaware III hunting the Companions down. Canton has ordered that a big shiny black prison be…

This post is not so much a review of THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT because I already wrote that, but an attempt to get down some general thoughts and dig a little deeper into some of the things I missed or just didn’t talk about during my initial reaction to the episode. I think I’ll do this…

“THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT” – Series 6, Episode 1, Story 214 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Toby Haynes – A new season of WHO starts with a lot of old faces. For the first time in the relaunch, the same Doctor/Companion partnership is back. Amy and Rory and River all receive a mysterious envelope…

“THE PANDORICA OPENS” and “THE BIG BANG” – Series 5, Episodes 12 & 13, Story 212 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Toby Haynes – Here’s where it all comes crashing together. The Eleventh Doctor gets one of those “left in time” messages from River telling him to go to early 2nd century Britain,…

“THE TIME OF ANGELS” and “FLESH AND STONE” – Series 5, Episodes 4 & 5, Story 206 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Andrew Smith – The Eleventh Doctor and Amy find a flight recorder in a museum with a message for the Doctor scribbled on it in Gallifreyan. How does he know it’s…

“THE BEAST BELOW” – Series 5, Episode 2, Story 204 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Andrew Gunn – The Eleventh Doctor and new Companion Amelia Jessica Pond hit up Starship UK, an entire country floating in space. It’s all impressive and stuff, but there are secrets lurking about the Starship. The Queen doesn’t…

“THE ELEVENTH HOUR” – Series 5, Episode 1, Story 203 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Adam Smith – The Eleventh Doctor gets his first adventure, crashing the TARDIS in the back yard of a Scottish girl living in England in 1996. He hates apples and bacon and loves him some fish and custard.…

“SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY” and “FOREST OF THE DEAD” – Series 4, Episodes 8 & 9, Story 195 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Euros Lynn – The Doctor and Donna head to The Library because his psychic paper told him to go there. Someone unknown to him is using the psychic paper and…

“BLINK” – Series 3, Episode 10, Story 186 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Hettie MacDonald – It’s time for the now annual Doctor Light episode involving the Suicide Squad and- wait, wrong universe. This is the one where the Doctor and his Companion get involved in something that mostly takes place off screen…

“THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE” – Series 2, Episode 5, Story 171 – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Euros Lynn – It’s Mickey’s first go-round in the TARDIS and he’s picked a good time to join. They land inside a spaceship where they can look into a room in 18th-century France. As the explore…

“THE DOCTOR DANCES” – Series 1, Episode 10, Story 165b – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by James Hawes – The Completion to THE EMPTY CHILD sees the Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack running around, dodging empty people with gas masks for faces as they try to piece together the mystery and save the…

“THE EMPTY CHILD” – Series 1, Episode 9, Story 165a – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by James Hawes – Improperly Behaving Companion Theater continues as the Ninth Doctor and Rose chase a metallic cylinder through a time vortex and end up in World War II England, where soon-to-be Companion Captain Jack Harkness takes his…